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:: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 ::
Unions Call for UN Sanctions against Nike USWA Press Release
In a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Presidents of the four unions claim that Nike systematically violates Compact’s Principle Three, that businesses should uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining.
The unions cite Nike’s ongoing restructuring at its Bauer Nike Hockey subsidiary. In 1995, when Nike purchased Bauer, the hockey apparel and equipment producer employed over 1,100 union-represented workers at three facilities in Canada. Bauer Nike Hockey recently announced plans to shut two of the facilities and drastically downsize the third. Aside from Bauer Nike Hockey, none of Nike’s over 23 thousand employees are unionized.
"We believe that Nike’s combined historic absence of union representation and decimation of union representation at facilities that it acquired demonstrate that Nike systematically violates workers’ association and collective bargaining rights," the unions state in the letter to Annan.------------------------------------------- posted 9:54 PM :: reference link ::
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